On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 3:16 PM Kevin Kenny <kevin.b.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The reductio-ad-absurdum would be to argue that 42nd Street in Manhattan > should be `noname=yes ref=???` and participate in a route relation with > `network=US:NY:New York:Street ref=42`. I'm sure that would please strict > taxonomists, but most people would think it silly to argue that the name of > the road at the downtown end of Times Square isn't 'Forty-Second Street'. > If 42nd Street can be a name, why can't County Route 23C? > > There are even parallels for 'the road has a name other than the ref, but > the ref remains the common name' in Manhattan. Sixth Avenue is also named > Avenue of the Americas. Nowadays, it carries signs for both, but I can > remember a time when the locals and the subway said 'Sixth Avenue' and the > street signs said 'Avenue of the Americas', confusing the tourists. These > are 'name' and 'alt_name', not 'name' and 'ref'; Sixth Avenue was there > first. (Also see Seventh Avenue/Fashion Avenue - only in the Garment > District; Fourth Avenue/Park Avenue South - the segment south of Union > Square > If you're trying to argue that "Sixth Street" is not a name, I'm not buying. Especially when you call out that it's absurd to suggest it is. Or that you don't understand the difference between a name and a ref. Or that you don't understand why data consumers may find conflating the two to be confusing or annoyingly redundant. Surely you give our intelligence more credit than that, don't you?
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